Belvidere man charged in connection with Monterey Station fight

A 25-year-old Belvidere man is set to appear in court on Sept. 11 after being charged in connection with a July 16 fighting incident at Monterey Station in Cowan.

Alejandro Guaduleupe Lerma, who has given a Neal Road residence in Belvidere to authorities as his primary address, is charged with public intoxication, disorderly conduct and resisting stop-frisk attempts by officers in connection with the incident at Monterey Station, according to Cowan police reports.

Reports said Lerma is also being charged with identity theft and fraud for allegedly attempting to use another man’s name and TennCare insurance. He is charged with two counts each, one from the Southern Tennessee Regional Health System hospital and the other from A&E Ambulance Service LLC.

He is also being charged for theft of services from the hospital, totaling about $2,000, reports said.

Lerma has been released on a $25,000 bond, according to reports.

Reports said Cowan police officers responded to a fight in progress at Monterey Station, 104 Monterey St. in Cowan, at about 12:33 a.m. on July 16.

When they arrived, there was a crowd totaling about 60 in the establishment’s parking lot.

Reports said a man, who appeared to be intoxicated, lunged at another man, and officers attempted to calm him down.

When the man refused to cooperate, officers attempted to detain him, reports said, adding that he was taken to the ground and placed in handcuffs.

Police called ambulance personnel to check on a cut over the individual’s eye that apparently happened in a previous fight, reports said.

The man was then placed in a patrol unit where he began kicking out the windows. Officers removed him and put him in a Sheriff’s Office vehicle where they were able to question him.

The man said someone had hit him with a beer bottle, reports said, adding that he gave two names to emergency management personnel, reports said, adding that it was unclear what his name was.

The individual was transported to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office and then to the hospital’s emergency room.

Officers were told the man used another identity and that he used TennCare under that name, reports said, adding that the individual was asked several times but kept insisting his name was the other individual.

Authorities were able to make a positive identity through past bookings and determined the man was Alejandro Lerma, with an April 2, 1998, birth date, reports said.

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